Planet Side

i was thinking of purchasing the MMORPG PlanteSide and i went to the site, the game looks interesting, it seems to incorporate FPS andRPG action.
But iwoul like to know from people whove played it, Is it worth it? What are its Strong points/weak points.
any feedback would be great.

I tried it a few months back, had more fun playing Unreal Tournament 2004.

It's a great game if anyone still plays it.

Its a great game, but it requires a fairly wide departure from traditional FPS thinking.

Being a decent player, in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing, is a far more beneficial thing than being a hotshot player doing his own thing. You are rarely an Army of One.

Someone needs to do the less glamourus things. Someone needs to pilot the huge lumbering transport ship. Someone needs to guard the computer core. Someone needs to man the turret-guns. Someone needs to make their way to the gate and get fuel and bring it back to the besieged base. Someone needs to drive the mobile command station. Etc. Not everyone is suiting up in MAX armor and storming the gates, or hoping into a fighter and tearing up a vehicle convoy.

Veterans of role-oriented team games like Battle of the Sexes and Team Fortress will understand this a little better than others, but its on a whole new level here.

Its also a very, very big game. Expect to spend a lot of time running from place to place. Learn to hitch rides when you can. Learn to request rides, too. Nothing like getting stranded after the bomber you were in got shot down by a couple of light fighers and having to hike a couple miles back to a base, possibly through hostile teritoriy.

Listen to your team-mates, listen to the system messages. Its important to know whats going on in the world around you. When a call goes out to defend a position, give it some serious thought... Its very likely more important than whatever you are doing right now.

The world is pretty big, but as a general rule action only happens on a couple of fronts at once. A front can be an entire island, though.

I liked the concept of it. Although in some areas the lack of battles got a bit frustrating in having to 'hunt' for them. I liked the idea that there weren't any cheaters and what not in that game because of it being an MMORPG. I could test my skills against others in this way. I tried it about a year ago and was impressed. I don't know how much the game has changed now, but back then we had 200+ person battles. Man did that get intense!

i played Entropia rescently.. (hmm.. dunno if the name is right)

that game just plain SUCKS.. you gott a pay with rl cash for every fart..
i think the only sl player wealthy enough to play this game.....

go anshe

I played PlanetSide when it came out for a while (i think up to 6 months). I was an outfit leader and I had a lot of fun, but some of the guys in my outfit got into a fight and they started to accuse me of not being strict enough to the members who were fighting so i lost control and decided to leave becuase the guys were just too mean for me LMAO! But if it wanst for the crude attitudes of a few guys in my outfit, I'd still be there and I was a hacker, had sooo much fun, yes it was chalenging, yes it was complex...I loved it! Running an outfit was difficult at times becuase not everyone likes to listen to you when your in combat, people like to be the hero, but really...the only way to win is to stick together and have a plan. If I wasn't paying for so many other gmes atm I would probabally go back...if a lot ofpeople still play. I hope this helps you make a decision!

I played when it had just opened, the potential was amazing: sorta chess with guns. The playerbase fell rapidly and I know one hardcore planetsider who reports that almost everyone knows everyone else there now. From all appearances, the game appears to be in SOE maintenence mode (that is, we're still making some monthly revenue, so we won't shut it down).

It was about the time that they started taking the chess part out in favor of zerging (ya know, for kids) that I stopped playing PlanetSide and found Second Life. Whether this was SOE's loss or SL's loss, I'll leave to you.

On a related note, I was curious about Vendetta Online (since I'm absolutely pining for a multiplayer Elite), but the reviews of that one aren't terribly promising... and Jumpgate while fun, wasn't quite right, and is also dying a slow death.

Any others out there? *hopehopehope...*

thank you all for the feedback the game seems interestign but soemt higns puzzle me
1. are there mosnters or is it PVP
2. how do you aquire vehicles or are they all NPC driven <final fantasy online>
3.what is the economy like
4. is there a level up system?
5. how do you get certifiquites


keep the "reviews" coming ireally apreciate it.
every story of the game brign sme closer to picking it up

1) It's PVP exclusivly, minus the odd player-positioned automatic turret.

2) With the exception of the orbital transport shuttle you can drop from, all vehicles are player-controled. They can be obtained from the vehicle construction facilities at bases, though not all bases have the equipment to make all types of vehicles. You have a few basic "types" of vehicles... In general, you have land and air, but there are a lot of sub-types... buggies, tanks, scouts, transports, etc. With the most recent expansion you also have mecha-like constructs that tower over other vehicles.

3) There isn't one.

4) Yes.

5) See 4. Basicly, as you earn experience you get points to spend towardss training for vehicles, weapons, armor, etc.

a single verbal explitive came to mind when reading that
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO


the game sounds increasingly good, next time im down at the EB ill pick it and some game cards up

I played Planetside for about 9 months... LOVED the game... it was a whole lot of fun playing with 20-30 guys in our outfit... we used Teamspeak for our 2-3 squads (you can have Platoon level groups of up to 30 people, 10 in each squad).

Once I tried out all the different factions (there are 3) and all the different specializations, I got a bit bored with it and ended up dropping my account. My alltime favorite position was New Conglamerate Vanguard tank driver, w/ certs in Advanced Engineering and Advanced Hacking. I usually had a cert for a Mosquito or Liberator too, in case I needed to get from place to place quickly. I also enjoyed playing Terran Republic Pounder MAX's

The BEST part of Planetside was the MASSIVE battles that would take place... 1-300 guys all shooting at eachother, sniping, setting up mines, repairing, mowing down people, stealthing their way into bases, etc. It was quite a rush sometimes! Some battles lasted an hour or more, especially on continents like Cyssor(GUNUKU!) or Hossin(IXTAB!), even Ceryshen! OOO what fun to drive a tank off a 200' cliff! Searhus was fun too... sometimes we would park an AMS intentionally too close to the lava and watch people pop out of it and roast to their doom!

Good times... good times! I miss it sometimes!